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Your 10th CD entitled Little Brother Is Watching
released on February 24th. Have you seen the reviews
so far? How do feel it will be received?
I don’t know. I haven’t seen the reviews. I’m afraid to
read them! Hopefully people like it! All we can do is
make honest music and share it with people, and hope
they like it.
I read that this album is personal and it’s about your life
and coming to terms with many things. Being that it’s
a deep album, how important to you that the album be
well received? Or is that even something that concerns
you at this time?
At this point it’s out of my hands. It’s out of my control.
I don’t even try to control it. I’m going to do what I’m
going to do. If everyone likes it, cool. If not, there are a album, it’s just that with all the touring and everything,
lot of other things I can do. It’s okay. I didn’t have a big chunk of time that I could put aside,
clear my schedule, keep the momentum going, and
Well that’s optimistic…I think! focus on staying in the studio. I finally just did it. I said,
I’m not sure if it is! (laughs) “I’m not touring. I’m not doing anything. I’m locking
myself in the studio. If I do any shows I’m going to do
I read in another interview that you are insanely busy one a month.” I did that pretty much from the end of
and you practically burn your candle at both ends all July til now.
the time. In the interview you described producing
as something you did like 10 years ago, and that in
Wow! So almost half a year.
the meantime you’ve been involved with all sorts of It’s the weirdest thing. It takes me exactly, no matter
different projects. What made you sit down and say, what, nine months to make an album, from the point I
“DAMMIT RON! I gotta produce this album!”? first hit record and start laying the drum tracks to the
It’s been too long! I’ve been wanting to do another point I’m holding an album in my hands. It always ends
released on February 24th. Have you seen the reviews
so far? How do feel it will be received?
I don’t know. I haven’t seen the reviews. I’m afraid to
read them! Hopefully people like it! All we can do is
make honest music and share it with people, and hope
they like it.
I read that this album is personal and it’s about your life
and coming to terms with many things. Being that it’s
a deep album, how important to you that the album be
well received? Or is that even something that concerns
you at this time?
At this point it’s out of my hands. It’s out of my control.
I don’t even try to control it. I’m going to do what I’m
going to do. If everyone likes it, cool. If not, there are a album, it’s just that with all the touring and everything,
lot of other things I can do. It’s okay. I didn’t have a big chunk of time that I could put aside,
clear my schedule, keep the momentum going, and
Well that’s optimistic…I think! focus on staying in the studio. I finally just did it. I said,
I’m not sure if it is! (laughs) “I’m not touring. I’m not doing anything. I’m locking
myself in the studio. If I do any shows I’m going to do
I read in another interview that you are insanely busy one a month.” I did that pretty much from the end of
and you practically burn your candle at both ends all July til now.
the time. In the interview you described producing
as something you did like 10 years ago, and that in
Wow! So almost half a year.
the meantime you’ve been involved with all sorts of It’s the weirdest thing. It takes me exactly, no matter
different projects. What made you sit down and say, what, nine months to make an album, from the point I
“DAMMIT RON! I gotta produce this album!”? first hit record and start laying the drum tracks to the
It’s been too long! I’ve been wanting to do another point I’m holding an album in my hands. It always ends
